when it feels like the walls are closing in around you and the darkness is louder than the silence and the footsteps that once created a sense of companionship are now gone and it feels like there is no breathing soul in sight and it feels too hard to breathe in the sharp, stinging air,…
Marie : Hey, a couple of friends and I are going out tonight to a frat party. Want to come? Salma : No I can’t. Marie: Why not? Salma: Because I’m Muslim, and I am not allowed. 5 minutes later… Marie: We are going to take a couple of tequila shots before we go. Since…
On my commute to and from school, I sometimes watch Islamic lectures on my smartphone. Not too long ago, while I was on the bus, I remembered a post on the UCLA MSA page mentioning Hamza Yusuf’s “Life of the Prophet,” so I decided to listen to it. Right next to me was a man,…
Think of a person that you may have fallen in love with or are already in love with. Then answer Yes or No to the following questions to determine if your love is real. Does your heart race every time you hear his/her name? Do you feel at peace every time you are around him/her?…
Please be sure to join us on campus in the Broad Art Center 2100A this Wednesday, March 30th for a presentation and discussion by formerly incarcerated Br. Jesse Maroney, currently working in prison outreach through the Islamic Institute of Orange County’s Link Outside. This article is meant to provide some important food for thought and…
“Say: ‘If mankind and the jinns were together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they helped one another.’” [al-Israa’ 17:88] My parents taught me how to speak Farsi, and although they also attempted to teach me the Arabic alphabet, I never learned it. However, I…
About 1,400 years ago in a dry, arid desert in what is now Saudi Arabia, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh -peace be upon him), introduced a fundamental green-guide, divinely gifted, in the form of the Qur’an in hopes to save humanity and Earth, by teaching the middle path of balance. Today the world is plagued with ecological…
Last week, three black Sudanese Americans were killed “execution-style” in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Their names were Mohamedtaha Omar (23), Adam Mekki (20), and Muhannad Tairab (17). All of them were members of a diaspora community from East Africa. Regardless of their shared affiliations, Omar and Tairab were Muslim, while Mekki was Christian. According to Fort…
Zayn Malik shocked the whole world when he left One Direction, the biggest boy band of the decade, in March of 2015. The world was left to wonder what the reason was behind his sudden departure, Zayn later addressed via a Facebook post: “I’d like to apologise to the fans if I’ve let anyone down,…
